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Post by bowbum on Feb 22, 2023 9:00:46 GMT -5
Corn for breakfast! We have a ton of deer in this area. But we have been finding some dead ones that aren't showing any signs of illness or trauma. In the last few months my neighbor and I have found 3 dead deer lying in the open, (our yards), that, otherwise, appear to be healthy animals. PGC warden came out yesterday and picked up the latest one found on Thursday of last week. He did a cursory exam and concurred that the animal, a mature doe, appeared healthy in every respect. "Yes" I told him I feed corn but we found two of the dead deer prior to my beginning feeding and I also told him I put the corn in 25 different little piles that keep the deer from being nose-to-nose. Attachments:
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Post by ridgecommander on Feb 22, 2023 13:07:06 GMT -5
Shouldn't be acidosis if you have been feeding all winter. Did they take the deer or plan a more detailed necropsy?
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Post by dougl on Feb 22, 2023 13:27:09 GMT -5
If they eat too much corn,it can still kill them.I've seen it personally.
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Post by bowbum on Feb 22, 2023 13:30:28 GMT -5
Shouldn't be acidosis if you have been feeding all winter. Did they take the deer or plan a more detailed necropsy? Yes, he took the deer and told me "if" they find anything of significance he will call me. As I said above; "Yes" I told him I feed corn but we found two of the dead deer prior to my beginning feeding.........." So, yeah it is a mystery! He did tell me that poisoning isn't out of the question.
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Post by bowbum on Feb 22, 2023 15:21:42 GMT -5
If they eat too much corn,it can still kill them.I've seen it personally. I've heard that and I've question the circumstances that could lead to that. My thought is that in really, really bad winters feeding a lot of corn could do it the same as hay has been known to do it. I recall in the 70s a Game News article about finding deer that starved but had bellies full of hay. So I don't think it is the corn as much as the circumstances of starving deer suddenly finding an unlimited food source. Otherwise cornfields would kill them.
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Post by cspot on Feb 22, 2023 21:08:19 GMT -5
If they eat too much corn,it can still kill them.I've seen it personally. Then there shouldn't be any deer left in Ohio. LOL. That is usually only an issue if they haven't had a steady diet of it and then someone throws out a bunch of corn during extreme weather. They can't digest it, but fill there bellies on it. THen they starve to death.
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Post by dougl on Feb 23, 2023 9:10:33 GMT -5
Well,I have corn fields on three sides of my house that are usually picked in Dec,if there's any left.What is left,the neighbors put in corn cribbs and feed the deer all winter so they have a pretty steady diet.A few years ago,I had a sick deer on my property so I called the PGC and they came up an offed it.That deer had all the tell tale signs of acidosis including a belly full of corn.That was the fifth deer they put down in that area in the past week.Deer migrate to where's there's food.They could be deer moving in that weren't there all fall.
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